2:10pm Sunday 22nd March 2009
By Wendy Barlow
A DRUG dealer caught with a haul of cocaine with a street value of around £50,000 has been jailed for five years.
Daniel Delaney, 21, of Haslingden, had a stash of the drug, of different levels of purity, hidden away at a unit in Stacksteads.
Police raided it and found the cocaine along with cutting agents to stretch the cocaine out further, Burnley Crown Court heard.
Delaney, who has an identical previous conviction, admitted possessing cocaine with intent to supply last November.
Delaney, of no fixed address, has been on remand for 95 days.
The court heard when officers searched the unit they found drugs, some ‘cut’ with other agents and some not.
Police also discovered dealers’ lists and scales. Delaney was arrested the same day and made no comment when interviewed.
He had a previous conviction for possession with intent to supply cocaine and had been sent to young offenders’ institution when he was 18.
Police say the find was the result of a joint operation by the Lancashire force’s intelligence unit and targeted crime unit.
Det Sgt Andrew Eddleston said the drugs could have had a street value of as much as £50,000.
He added: ”This is a warning to other drug dealers that they will be pursued to the full extent of the law.”
Two years ago Delaney was jailed for two years for dealing cocaine for up to 30 people, as he sought to pay off his own drug debts.
Burnley Crown Court heard then that the defendant had become addicted to cocaine and owed his dealers.
In a raid at his Haslingden home, police found scales, plastic bags, along with a small quanity of the drug and ketamine, some times used as a mixing agent.
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